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riffs, plural;
  1. Play such phrases
    • - the other horns would be riffing behind him
Noun
  1. (in popular music and jazz) A short repeated phrase, frequently played over changing chords or harmonies or used as a background to a solo improvisation
    • - a brilliant guitar riff
  1. a Berber living in northern Morocco
  2. flick: look through a book or other written material; "He thumbed through the report"; "She leafed through the volume"
  3. a jazz ostinato; usually provides a background for a solo improvisation
  4. play riffs
  5. In music, an ostinato (derived from Italian: "stubborn", compare English: obstinate) is a motif or phrase which is persistently repeated in the same musical voice. An ostinato is always a succession of equal sounds, wherein each note always has the same weight or stress. ...
  6. Riff is a R&B vocal group from New Jersey, formed while its members were in high school. The ensemble began under the name Playboys in the late 1980s, with a style strongly influenced by doo wop.
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  11. A repeated instrumental melody line in a song; A clever or witty remark; To improvise in the performance or practice of an art, especially by expanding on or making novel use of traditional themes
  12. (riffing) verbally bantering with the audience.
  13. (1) A relatively simple, catchy repeated phrase. May be played behind a soloist or as part of a head. Often in a bluesy style. Riff tunes are made up of riffs, characteristic of the black bands of the 30s. ...
  14. perform a monologue or spoken improvisation on a particular subject: he also riffs on racism and the economy.
  15. A riff is a short, repeated melodic pattern, and is often used in jazz.
  16. Term used in pop, rock and jazz for short phrases used as background or as building blocks for solos.
  17. A type of ostinato or short musical idea of two to four bars which is repeated throughout a composition. It is often heard in Jazz or pop music.
  18. 1. a repeated rhythmic, melodic figure.  2. to ad lib or solo i.e. “to riff on a tune.”
  19. 1) A musical phrase, a term used originally in jazz, 2) To play a riff.
  20. A storage format used with gray-scale images.
  21. Usually a repeated phrase using chiefly chord tones that helps provide the rhythm track of a piece of music.
  22. A short, catchy, improvised and repeated phrase, sometimes played by non-improvising instruments whilst a solo is in progress. Many big band arrangements were constructed in this way in the early days i.e. the 1930s, but nowadays much of the big band repertoire is necessarily written down.
  23. A repeated rhythmic chord sequence within a song or around which a song may be based.
  24. Short fragment of melody, usually repeated many times.
  25. A rhythmic figure played many times in a song. It is apparently a shortened version of the word refrain.